Internet politics
18 February 2008 @ 10:53
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According to a new study – Politics, Policy and the Internet by Robert Colvile – the BNP’s website is the most popular in politics. It is twice as popular as the Tories site, and also beats the Lib Dems and New Labour, by gaining 51% of all web traffic to party sites last year. I’ve been there, whilst researching my previously mentioned article. It has that feeling of being a dangerous search term, a bit like looking for how to build a bomb, a bit like being cheeky and having a look at some porn. It is a similar taboo, a similar searrch for clarification on what the site is really like. Can they really be saying that, thinking that? Yes, they can and they do. I think that is basically why they manage to get so many visitors, after all we all know what New Labour is saying daily, we hear a lot about the Tories and Liberals, also. Even smaller mainstream parties like the Greens hold no mystery for us, we know, albeit roughly, what they say and it is all fairly palletable. Not so the word of the BNP, meaning their site gives us an easy way to see what they actually say (not a media representation) without actually having to face the reality of it all. With the web we have instant access and we can leave as instantly; shut it off, cut it out forget they are out there. Hardly surprising then that they get so many popping in… Comments Off |
